Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich countries are getting poorer," boasted plump Dr. Walther Funk, Reichsminister of Economics, in Rome last week, "and the young poor ones getting richer...
Though nothing green grows on St. Paul, the water around it is often bright green with spawning lobsters. Few fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
They will pay their own traveling expenses, hotel bills and caddies, with no guarantee of being a dollar richer-in kudos or in cash-when they return...
...sixth grant went to a ringer by the name of Murphey. The awards were made with an eye to scholarship, the University confided, and since there were no Murphies, scholarly or otherwise, in the Junior class, two men from each of the other classes are today the richer...
...slipped into the noose of Nazidom. Cynical neutrals figured that Turkey and the Balkan States are now delightedly inviting bids from the democracies and the totalitarian states, with not. even the azure skies of the Near East as the limit in a game of dishing out money which the richer democracies should be able...